1. Building
During the term, the building is open to the public 7 am to 9 pm Monday through Friday and noon to 9 pm Saturday and Sunday. All Carleton students, staff, and faculty with a valid One Card can access the building 7 am to midnight seven days a week. Cinema & Media Studies and Theater & Dance students have additional access (see below).
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b. lights
Just inside the main entrance, on the right side of the door frame as one walks into the space, there's a small recessed panel. The bottom right button is "cinema night" (dark, but with aisle lights for safety). The others turn on various lighting cues: mainly, spotlight in front of the stage, lights over the wide aisle on the floor, fluorescent work lights.
c. playing a movie
In the projection booth, tap the LCD panel once. It will turn on and read, "Welcome to the Weitz. Please press what you want to do." From the offer you a choice of projection or sound system only. (The projector has a warm-up time that can seem rather long if you just need to use a microphone.) If you choose projection, the next screen has a column of buttons along the right side of the screen selectthat allows you to select a video source, for example, "DVD." Insert a DVD or Blu-ray disc into the player and press play. Best practice: The only sure way to head off tech trouble lurking in a given copy of a film, is to watch it in its entirety on the system it's going to play on, with lead time enough to secure another if problems are found
Best practice with any projection for an audience is to watch programming in its entirety with lead time enough to deal with tech if trouble arises. This includes screening the actual copy of the movie on one of the cinema's Blu-Ray players and, in the case of presentation, previewing media such as Powerpoint from the machine it's actually going to play from.
d. talking
A handheld wireless mic is stored in the teaching station. This can be attached to the teaching station by a gooseneck stored in the same place.
e. some tech specs
Signal comes into a Denon DN-A7100 processor (reference manual). Sync sound in the room is managed by a Lectrosonics DM1612. Then volume control at the LCD panels (one in the rack, the other at the teaching station) is enabled by AMX AXB VOL3 Volume ControlSignal. From there, signal is sent to a 13,900-watt array of amps: a LabGruppen C 5:4X and C 10:8X; A LabGruppen C 28:4 and two LabGruppen C 48:4 amps. The amps power ten EV [SL-10|http://electro-voice.com/family.php?id=51] (120W cont/480W peak) speakers side and rear, two EV [TL-880D|http://www.electrovoice.com/product.php?id=223] subwoofers (700W cont/2800W peak), and three ElectroVoice TL606ST+HPK Variplex II Cinema Series front/center speakers (800W continuous/3200W peak). (The speakers have a total capacity of 5000W cont/20000W peak).
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Studio requests are initiated by filling in [this form|http://weitzstudios.notlong.com]. No food or drink in the control rooms please (WCC 41, 36 and 46). Water in containers that close completely is encouraged on the sound stages (40, 38, and 45) for talent and crew on long shoots. No other food or drink please.
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